[…]film that was to be about London. He gave me a few tips and we started filming from the same spots. One of the spots I remember was St Clement in the Strand and there a scaffolding had been erected in order to clean the spire at the top, he thought it would be a very good idea to climb to the top an[…]
[…] they got everybody out of bed, I had a meeting in the manager’s office, and I don’t know what happened, but eventually I went to the Adelphi, in the Strand, which was a cinema then and spent six weeks, and I could bring up pistol shots, and now I understand dubbing mixers doing that all the time. I[…]
[…] Eddie Mirzoeff. Eddie – I’m not sure if at that stage he was – I don’t think he was Head of Documentaries, but he was the Producer who was head of a strand later on. DB: Yes, [inaudible]. PB-C: It was well before that. Anyway Eddie Mirzoeff was Producer of this delightful film, a film I a[…]
[…]d very evocative too. It made you think what a terrible society it was of the past. It all helped socialism.Interviewer (unidentified): There are two strands in the way housing is presented. One is: this is the plan we've made for you. This is the world we're going to build for you. I'm thinking par[…]
[…]I. Speaker 1  0:01  Uh, now you talked about court case? Yeah, there were two, two court cases, which which ran consecutively, and the strand. What's the name the law courts? Yes, and one of them concerned this chap who'd got a crew together as the producer and employer, he'd taken th[…]
[…]s print of the film. And a lot of ballyhoo and, preceded by the band of the Territorials - about fifty Territorials you know - they marched along The Strand and up Trafalgar Square and into Wardour Street, and he thought it was a great publicity stunt, which it was of course, but the trouble is that[…]
[…] a lot of model work in that. This was an air raid over London and this was done with a model over London of the Thames, I suppose it would be of the Strand area of the Thames, and the invading airships were models which were floated in little glass tanks, and they had in the gondolas they had Fulle[…]
[…]chive I should namecheck Brad King, who would start with – actually lets go back before Brad King… in addition to programming the cinema which is one strand we have talked about, the IWM also set up a loan scheme of copies of film from the Archive, initially on 16mm, later on video format, to mainly[…]
